'Lightning fast' CT scanner improving treatment for patients at Montfort
It has been in use for just a matter of weeks, but already Montfort Hospital’s new CT scanner with a specialized heart diagnostic function is making a difference.
Montfort radiologist Dr. François Leduc said the scan helped identify serious heart disease in a 45-year-old man with low risk factors who came to the hospital with unexplained chest pain. He was scanned at the Montfort on a Tuesday and by the following Monday he was undergoing open-heart surgery at the University of Ottaw
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